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What all this* tends to suggest is a horizontally dis-integrated culture** – between, perhaps, the G~ tendencies *** of the Arab mind in particular, and the M~ tendencies **** of Islam. Until fairly recently (c[irca 18th century[ce]?)# Western culture was generally horizontally integrated, and shows very recent signs (eg the end of the Cold War) or becoming so again. By contrast, Western Christianity has tended to emphasise the vertical division between C and A~ – God and the World – whereas Islam has tended to emphasise vertical unity or at least homogeneity, the spiritual and the mundane unified in Islam.#*

*[Presumably, [Redbook9:96-100][19910414:1104]{Islamic Art – The Word (1)}[14th April 1991]ff (above); but see also fn refs below)]

**{Perhaps even a totally disintegrated culture (per marginal degree-codes above) – each work of art taking the characteristics of its own degree but in the simplest of singular forms, ie with technical proficiency (U~?) but no creative construction into larger or higher forms (– which would involve qualitative integration, ie using all circle degrees?)}

***(ref [[Redbook9:76-77][19910411:0935m]{[Literature in Islam]}[11th April 1991]ff,] 76)

****(ref eg [[Redbook9:68][19910411:0935c]{The Law (Shariah) [continued (3)]}[11th April 1991],] 68)

#ref Dis[s]oc[iation of Sensibility (ie Thought & Feeling)]

[See eg [Redbook6:245][19890912:1140l]{Historical Circles (3) [continued (6)]}[12th September 1989]]

#*(ref [[Redbook9:86][19910412:0905q]{Islam in Action [continued (4)]}[12th April 1991],] 86,

{[[Redbook9:56][19910409:1239]{Islam}[9th April 1991],] 56}

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